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Superwoman

In 1943, a dreaming Lois Lane became the first Superwoman. It was a short but intriguing story, and clearly it can be made even better by adding RPG stats. I mean, that’s obvious to everyone, right ?

“Diana the Huntress”

Comics Other Universes Proto-Marvel Universe (Atlas, Timely)

Obscure character from a 1953 Atlas Comics astonishing tale. But she could easily exist in the Marvel Universe.

Ramrod II

Comics Marvel Universe

Handy mercenary cyborg with Class 10 strength. Straight brawler. Mostly fought Daredevil and Spider-Man.

As of October of 2018, this entry was overhauled. It then was implanted with M&M stats made of space steel.

Guardian of death

Adventure/RPG games Diablo Video Games

This is part #2 of our sample Diablo 3 character, a Helltooth witch doctor.

This part is chiefly about recapping the game’s story, plus the Powers & Abilities section.

Lester Carlisle

Greatest American Hero Other TV Shows Television

A capsule profile of this minor character on early 1980s super-hero TV show The Greatest American Hero.

Jubilee

Comics Marvel Universe

This is the second half of her first character profile, covering her pre-Generation-X career with the X-Men. Like, y’know.

Captain Ironfist

Comics DC Universe Golden Age Stuff

An obscure 1942 enemy of Superman and Lois Lane. Possibly a ghost pirate, but prolly not.

Voice commands in Windows video games

Video game guide Video Games

One of our occasional video gaming guides, since I have to take breathers at some points…

This one is about using free Windows speech recognition software to input commands whilst playing video games. This is primarily useful for persons with low or diminished manual dexterity.

Generic Organians

Star Trek Television

A hyper-advanced alien species seen in a 1967 episode of Star Trek, “Errand of Mercy”. Cosmic psionic powers.

Guardian of death

Adventure/RPG games Diablo Video Games

A character profile for a sample Diablo III Witch-Doctor Player Character.

This includes a primer to the world and the story of all three games, because that’s how we roll in the Torajan Jungles.

Dark Messiah

Comics Marvel Universe

A 1973 Daredevil enemy with great might, created by Moondragon.

As of October of 2018, this profile was overhauled, and then M&M stats for it were revealed to us.

Donation calls and situation report — October, 2018

It’s time for the last of our thrice-yearly calls for donation for 2018 !

As always, this call doubles as a summary of what’s been happening on writeups.org (and why) since the previous call.

Jubilee

Comics Marvel Universe

This first character profile for Jubilee covers her childhood and the earliest years of her career, before Generation X.

Poodle Lady

1990s movies Movies

The most notable agent of the Penguin in the 1992 Batman Returns movie.

Our Poodle Lady profile has stats for *both* the lady and the poodle ! Aren’t we amazing ?

Vancian D&D magic

Dungeons and Dragons RPG Other Games Technical RPG articles

To spell it out, this is a rather technical article about old-school, Jack-Vance-inspired, early-D&D-style magic in the DC Heroes RPG. Just so we can write up a handful of D&D characters at some point, which probably wasn’t reasonable.

Night-Owl

Comics DC Universe Golden Age Stuff

A criminal mastermind with darkness technology. He fought Superman and Lois Lane in 1942.

Those were the days, my friend.

Ms. Mesmer

Comics DC Universe

Super-hypnotist, as well as a herald that subtext is dead. Part of The Gang, a convenient four-person team.

As of September of 2018, this profile received transfixing M&M stats. Which concludes our overhaul of the small The Gang character profiles.

Peek-a-Boo

Comics DC Universe

A minor, tragic superhuman character seen in Flash comics during the 2000s.

This is a tiny profile, but as of September of 2018 we added in-line M&M stats.

Doctor Who digital Humble Bundle, starts at $1

A huge pile of digital comics that covers just about every incarnation of the Doctor. There’s even a bit of exclusive material.

From Humble Bundle, so multi-formats, DRM-free, etc..

Catwoman

1990s movies Movies

Likely the most famous version of Catwoman, as played by Michelle Pfeiffer in the 1992 movie Batman Returns.

Yes, we’re glad that we finally could write her up.

Doc Beck

Other TV Shows Television

Post-zombie-apocalypse survivor from the TV dramedy series Z Nation. Ex-hippie with robust medical, survival and other skills (and a big mouth).

Path of Exile – Oni-Goroshi farming guide

Video game guide Video Games

This is one of the small video game guides we occasionally do as a side effect of research. There’ll be a character entry involving the Oni-Goroshi sword at… some point.

This writeup about procuring a specific item in a specific game (Path of Exile), and the process is a royal pain in the keister. So it’s not a general interest article.

Monster

Comics DC Universe Golden Age Stuff Other Golden Age stuff

One of the notable enemies of the Justice Society of America during the 1940s – there aren’t that many, really.

He’s a cliché yet he works pretty well.

Svet the hairdresser

Adventure/RPG games Video Games

A fleshed out example Player Character from the Grim Dawn video game, using a big shotgun and a fiery circle of power.

Can be useful in quite a few steampunk and/or post-apocalyptic contexts. Or if you need a haircut.

DC Heroes RPG – New Rules – Drawbacks

Technical RPG articles

Drawbacks for DC Heroes characters, created because we were stuck modelling published characters. Recent additions :
— More stuff for Irrational A/D/F/H.
— More stuff for Age (Old).
— Usage notes for Appearance Drawbacks.
— Expanded discussion of the Ammunition Drawback.

Bulldozer

Comics DC Universe

Super-strong. Part of a convenient team.

As of September of 2018, the capsule writeups for The Gang (that’s the convenient team) are receiving M&M stats that’ll cater your pillar.

Shields for RPGs and other stories

Technical RPG articles Weapons Locker articles

This covers all sorts of fighting shields, from small hardwood stuff to wheeled ballistic SWAT contraptions to force shields.

As of September of 2018, this article was spun off the technical article about shields use. It also received a fair bit of new material, such as ballistic polycarbonate. That was a joke.

Blanka

Brawling games Street Fighters Video Games

Tom’s take on this classic Street Fighter hard-fighting mutated man-beast. As of September of 2018, this profile was revisado e melhorado.

Shields in the DC Heroes RPG

Technical RPG articles Weapons Locker articles

You’d rather come back with your shield than on it ? Then you totally need this extensive article about wielding shields in the DC Heroes RPG.

As of September of 2018, this article was revised for style and clarity. It is also getting split into two parts. This part is the rules discussion, the second part is about the shields themselves.